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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History

On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History

Carlyle, Thomas

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Letters & EssaysGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0692201718
ISBN13: 9780692201718
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 13 2014
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did;-on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs...For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these. [excerpt from chapter 1]

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